Frederick Charles Maisey (1825–1892) was an English army officer, archaeological surveyor and painter, active in India. His main painting technique was pen and ink, and watercolour.
Early life Maisey was son of Thomas Maisey (1787-1840), of Portland Place, Marylebone, London, a painter and lithographer- sometime drawing master at schools in Cheam and in Kensington-A Biographical Dictionary of Royal Academy Students 1769-1830, Martin Myrone, Walpole Society, 2022 who exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts and was a founding member (treasurer),https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/organisation/royal-institute-of-painters-in-water-colours later president,http://royalinstituteofpaintersinwatercolours.org/history of the New Watercolour Society.https://somersetandwood.com/frederick-charles-maisey-mathabhanga-flat-west-bengal-india-1843-drawing-js-676https://somersetandwood.com/thomas-maisey-pnws-riverside-with-church-weir-early-19th-century-lithograph-js-667https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG36906
Career Maisey was a lieutenant in the British Army circa 1850 in the Bengal Native Infantry, and participated to the British exploration of India. Maisey was in charge of the excavation of Sanchi in 1851, working with fellow English officer Alexander Cunningham. In 1852 he also made the earliest painting of the Temples at Khajuraho.
Maisey reached the rank of General on December 1, 1888.
His son, also Frederick Charles Maisey, became a lieutenant-colonel, whose career included serving with the 30th Punjab Infantry. In 1895- whilst serving in the campaign to relieve Chitral- he excavated the Buddhist site of Dargai at the southern foot of the Malakand Pass in Pakistan.The View from Malakand: Harold Deane's 'Note on Udyana and Gandhara', Llewelyn Morgan and Luca Maria Oliveri, Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2022, p. 213
Works Sánchi and its remains : a full description of the ancient buildings, sculptures, and inscriptions at Sánchi, near Bhilsa, in Central India, with remarks on the evidence they supply as to the comparatively modern date of the Buddhism of Gotama, or Sákya Muni
See also List of British Army full generals
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